TechWeb: How To Safely Manage Employee Identities Online
InformationWeek offers 7 steps to better identity management, a primer on an important new security concern around protecting personal information about employees using online services and applications.
“Managing employees’ identities, passwords, and access rights has always been a challenge. And now, increased use of outsourcing and software-as-a-service offerings have further complicated things, requiring the use of federated identity management outside the corporate walls.
Setting up and managing federated IDM, which makes users’ identity data portable across autonomous security domains, can be complicated and cumbersome. With distributed systems, employees around the globe, and an endless number of technologies to integrate, it’s not for the faint of heart.”